Not everyone is suitable for entrepreneurship and is suitable for being a boss.
I don't know if everyone has ever had the idea of starting a business, but it is said that 90% of people have the idea of starting a business.
However, starting a business is an extremely difficult process, and it can be described as a life and death. According to statistics, in China, the probability of entrepreneurial failure is as high as 90%, the failure rate of college students is as high as 95%, the probability of one-time success of entrepreneurs is only 12%, and the probability of second success is only 20%.
Many people feel that their lives are not happy because they can't stand commuting every day, and they envy the freedom and money-making life of entrepreneurs and bosses, so they resign impulsively and want to start their own business.
In fact, they only see the glamour on the surface of the entrepreneur, and do not understand the real work and life status of the entrepreneur. Starting a business is harder than going to work, you have to accept both physical and psychological torture, responsibilities and pressures, and too many problems to worry about and think about, such as the company's various costs and expenses, the company's development direction, product sales, management of employees, and so on. There is no such thing as a vacation, and it is necessary to enter combat mode at any time to deal with and solve all kinds of thorny problems.
In addition, in the process of starting a business, there are too many uncontrollable unknown factors inside and outside, even if you have a lot of money in the highlight moment, the next second may make you in debt, or even become a prisoner, such as conflicts and conflicts of interest between venture partners, the departure of core employees, the cold winter of the market, etc. Even Lei Jun said that entrepreneurship is not a human thing at all. Entrepreneurs need to have tenacious endurance and the spirit of winning and losing.
However, some people just like entrepreneurship and take it as a kind of fun. Therefore, there are people who are suitable for entrepreneurship and there are people who are not suitable for entrepreneurship, and this article will talk to you about what kind of people are suitable for entrepreneurship.
What is the difference between starting a business and working part-time?
To find out what kind of person is suitable for starting a business, you first need to figure out what is the difference between starting a business and working part-time
Starting a business and working part-time are two different ways of working. Part-time work refers to working for someone else or for a company, completing a given job task and receiving a salary as a reward. Entrepreneurship, on the other hand, refers to starting a company on your own, starting a business, and making a profit from it.
That is to say, once you choose to start a business, no one will pay you a salary, you have to rely on the profits of running a company to support yourself, and no one will assign you work tasks, you must have strong subjective initiative and know exactly what you should do.
To sum up,The biggest difference between starting a business and working part-time is autonomy and risk-taking. Entrepreneurs have the right to make their own decisions and can freely choose the company's business direction, company positioning and business strategy, while part-time workers need to work in accordance with the company's regulations and requirements and have no decision-making power. However, entrepreneurs need to bear various risks, such as market risks, financial risks, legal risks, competition risks, etc., while part-time workers only need to complete the assigned work and do not need to bear various risks of business operation.
There are 3 qualities that are needed to start a business
1. Be bold
Entrepreneurship is made out of nothing, and it requires enough courage and courage, ambition, and not being willing to be mediocre. People who can start a business are people who dare to take risks and are not satisfied with the status quo.
Starting a business is an adventurous activity in itself, with both risks and benefits. There is a proverb that says it well: Hold the bold to death, starve the faint-hearted. The spirit of adventure is an important part of the entrepreneurial spirit.
Many people have the ability and professional knowledge, but they like to hesitate and make up their minds when doing things, so it is easy to miss opportunities, even if they are in front of them, they don't know whether to seize them.
A famous person once said that the poor cannot become rich, and it is not money, connections, or connections that are lacking. What they really lack is the ambition to become rich, and what they lack is the spirit of daring and fighting. They also want to live a rich life, and sometimes they can find some business opportunities, but when they do risk analysis, they see all risks, and subconsciously find all kinds of reasons and excuses for their own reluctance, and finally come to a conclusion that this thing can't be done, the risk is too great!
In the process of starting a business, under the premise of legal compliance, we must have the courage and courage to constantly break free from various rules and regulations, inner shackles, psychological baggage and spiritual shackles.
It is very important to start a business and not stick to the rules!
2. Strong self-discipline
When Jack Ma started his business, he said: If you want to succeed, you must first learn self-discipline.
As mentioned above, if you choose to start a business, no one will ask you to do any work, but how much money you can earn, how much salary and bonuses you can pay to employees, and whether you can pay rent on time all depend on your control of the company and your hard work.
When you are working, even if you fish, someone will pay you a salary, but no one cares about you when you start a business, if you still maintain the mentality of getting by, from freedom to laziness, then you really can't make money, and you can't deceive people.
In many cases, the competition between entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs is not a high-level strategyIt's about who is more self-disciplined and who has stronger execution.
Wang Xing, the founder of Meituan, said in an internal speech: "Regarding the understanding of the business model, I think the business model is actually not the most critical thing, because a model can be very simple and very transparentThe business model is common, and the key is to look at executionThis is my understanding of the business model. ”
Without self-discipline, there is no execution!Without execution, dreams cannot be transformed into reality, and no matter how good the entrepreneurial idea is, it can only be a pipe dream!
3. Strong toughness
Starting a business is a long-term thing, and we need to be prepared for a long time. On this long road, entrepreneurs must be strong enough to keep moving towards their dreams.
Entrepreneurship is destined to be a bumpy and tortuous road, entrepreneurs will encounter many problems every day, such as cash flow problems, team management problems, business problems, etc., sometimes internal and external troubles come together. If you don't have a strong will, it's hard to persevere.
People with glass hearts don't want to start a business, and there are many more failures to accept when starting a business than a part-time job.
Successful entrepreneurs have extraordinary perseverance, no matter what happens, what setbacks and difficulties they encounter, never complain, and always persevere.
Don't look back if you don't hit the south wall, don't look back if you hit the south wall, knock the south wall out of a crack and keep moving forward. Yu Minhong said: We must find hope in despair.
Entrepreneurship must not be smooth sailing, entrepreneurs must have super resilience, have the spirit of perseverance and unbeatable Xiaoqiang, and go on no matter how difficult it is.
Resilience is a kind of stubborn spirit. Hold on for one more minute, and one more group will give up;Success sometimes comes from your dedication to entrepreneurship.
There are 3 types of skills needed to start a business
1. Decision-making ability
Mr. Duan Yongping, the founder and famous investor of Xiaobawang game machine and backgammon learning machine, often said a sentence:"Do the right thing, do the right thing. ”
Entrepreneurs are faced with a variety of big and small things that require decisions every day.
Entrepreneurs must first have the ability to judge and make decisions, judge what is the right thing, what should be done, and what should not be done, and ensure that the whole company is working in the right direction. For example, what kind of track you choose, what type of customers to serve, what kind of products to make, which business direction the company should develop, and which businesses to cut, these are all things that entrepreneurs must figure out.
The so-called direction is wrong, and the effort is in vain. If the entrepreneur's decision-making ability is poor, the cost and cost are huge, and the impact on the morale of the company's employees is also huge.
A qualified entrepreneur must constantly improve his decision-making level and ability to keep the company moving in the right direction.
2. Learning ability
When we embark on the road of entrepreneurship, there will definitely be many things that will not be, all abilities need to be learned, which requires entrepreneurs to have super learning ability, be able to quickly grasp everything needed, and solve the problems and troubles encountered on the road of entrepreneurship, such as, how do you find projects, how can you build a team, how to design equity structure and equity incentives, how to recruit employees, how to expand marketing, how to improve leadership, how to motivate and inspire employees, and so on.
The most powerful people are not the smartest, but the best at learning. Whether there is a willingness to learn and whether to learn is the most important reason for the gap between people.
There are 3 ways to learn:
Learn from books
Reading 10,000 books, many successful people are unable to put down the books and read a lot.
Learn from the advanced
Find someone who has results, or someone who is better than you in a certain field, learn what he has done right, summarize one, two, three, and it is best to communicate and ask him in person.
Learn from yourself
Regular review, based on their past successes and failures, summarize the experience and rules.
3. Integration ability
If you have an idea, you can be a military advisor or a staff officer;Without the ability to integrate, it is impossible to start a business.
The boss is the integrator of resources, including finding partners, making products, opening the market to find customers, looking for investors, constantly looking for core talents, and so on.
No one succeeds in their careers by working alone, making small money depends on themselves, and making big money must rely on the team.
Talent is at the heart of all success.
A boss doesn't have to know everything, and he doesn't need to know everything. If you don't know how to sell, you can find a sales director, and if you can't manage, you can find an operations director.
You can know nothing, but you must know how to integrate resources, find the right talents, gather talents, and give full play to the value of talents, which is the core ability of the boss.
Look at Liu Bang, he can't fight, can't govern the country, and can't make suggestions, but he knows how to integrate resources, know how to use people, and know how to form a team. Let Han Xin help him fight, let Xiao He help him govern the country's best grain and grass, and let Zhang Liang help him give advice, and finally he succeeded in starting a business and became the emperor.
Epilogue
Entrepreneurship is a marathon, not a 100-meter sprint, and we must have a long-term mentality to start a business.
Although entrepreneurship is only one of the lifestyles, entrepreneurship is the most gorgeous way of life in peacetimeIt is full of challenges and uncertainties, and under this lifestyle, the joys and sorrows of life and the joys and sorrows of human nature will be condensed in your entrepreneurial journey. You may experience more things in one year of entrepreneurship than you have experienced in five years of part-time work.
If you like a stable, relaxed, and comfortable life, you are obviously not suitable for entrepreneurship;If you like challenges, you like uncertainty, and you like tossing, congratulations, you're probably a good fit to start a business.
Entrepreneurship is a life-changing way. At the same time, entrepreneurship can be learned, there are rules to follow, no one is born suitable for entrepreneurship, most of them can be changed through their own efforts. Someone, a book, or someone you encounter on the way to starting a business may change your personality and make you better and more perfect.
Finally, I want to say that this article is not to encourage you to start a business, after all, the boss is a minority, and the workers are the majority, and it is important to think clearly which path you are suitable to take, and it is also a way to follow the right person and the right boss.